The Darling Crepes of May

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My turn......

DD just said that she thought C3 was easier than C2 DH said that lots at his school were saying it was hard today.

I think they are upping the ante for all subjects by the sounds of it

Glad your DD was upbeat

Dp wore cheese cloth trousers (yes really!). Other than that he had his tres mod phase - mohair suits, trilby.... By the time I inherited him he had hit the don't care much' and mainly wore cords (at 22). On the clothing front he really hasn't changed much - he just doesn't care.

I wore a lot of oversized men's jumpers, had a pair of paint splattered dungarees and Edwardian dress shirts......

Ah yes, the oversized men's jumpers. I had a lot of those. I even got married the first time around in an M&S XXXL men's cardigan. (Along with the large tartan hat and foul skirt from Camden market, which I have doubtless mentioned before).

BTM, so your dd has P2 and P3 on Monday? What will she be doing science-wise in Y11?

I hope everyone is coping ok with the exams and that the DC aren't being too difficult (understandable though it is).

My DH would live in jeans given half a chance, but I remember the cords he used to wear (oh and grandad shirts). I have just about weaned him off polo shirts now - his default, no doubt because he always had to wear a suit, shirt and tie for business.

My day didn't work out as planned as by the time I had bought the ingredients for baking it was lunchtime and then the weather improved so I went out on my first bike ride of the season: did 15 miles but unfortunately forgot to change into padded shorts so I have sore nether regions.

DS came home saying he did really badly too (C2 and C3 with BTM's DD). questions about stuff he didn't like and none of the stuff he wanted. he's eaten a lot of biscuits, drunk alot of tea, done a lot of FB and watched a lot of scrubs. fair enough.

I also wore loads of oversized men's jumpers too, plus men's combat trousers (v baggy) and huge plaid shirts.

No Stropps, they just do Chemistry this year - Biology and Physics next year. Eeeek!
And wow! What a wedding outfit

Are polo shirts bad for men then, NU? DH wears them a lot. They seem to suit him better than Tshirts! And I had sore bits after our first bike ride of the season, despite wearing padded shorts AND a gel seat!

Addle, sorry for your DS too - it does sound like they all found it hard

I wore a lot of black. And flowery trousers. And an oversized vintage coat (a real granny coat!) And I had a pinafore dress

BTM, I think DH looks better in Ts or shirts and he still has the odd pair of trousers with a pleat - so they just make him look big round the middle. He has the usual problem with ageing men, he carries all his excess weight round the middle. I, on the other hand, carry mine on my thighs (well amongst other places! ).

Oh and I had a maxi pinafore dress, BTM - very stylish. I still have a full length frilly apron which DSis gave me donkey's years ago to wear at all those dinner parties we gave back then. We thought we were so sophisticated. Apron has never been used, by the way.

"Come on Eileen" was filmed round the corner from where I live now. It has changed a lot round there...

I also had hair shaved over the ears, short and spiky on top (blonde), dark underneath and long at the back (usually in a plait). I was a model for the local hairdresser. I had Laura Ashley dressed "for smart" and white court shoes. Casual was usually baggy jeans and a vest top with no bra underneath slapper and some kind of casual jacket (I had a leather one at one point) slung on top. Espadrilles on feet in summer, and usually some frondy, fringey Indian scarf - an influence from my stint at school in Alsace.

I moved to Warsaw shortly after my 22nd birthday and my dress sense became a bit more conservative, due to the fact that there was nothing to buy there and I used to get all of my clothes in Berlin, when I was let out for a weekend.

DH had dungarees and white jeans, apparently... (this was before I met him).

DD was quite happy tonight. She's upstairs working.

On the sartorial front my DH has never owned a pair of jeans . I'm afraid I was a Sloane - pie crust collar, velvet headband and a lot of Laura Ashley. The young "old fogey" met the frumpy sloane - he even had a pipe then and a button up cardigan. Come on, one of you must have had that short puff sleeved cotton blouse with the frilled collar and pin tucked front - everyone had one of those.

But on the shopping front I am just Squeeeeeee. This weekend is my cottage pie for 60 weekend (homeless); I do it every couple of months. In Sainsburys tonight there was a whole shelf of 15th May 10% mince and the man with the reduction gun was in the same aisle. He stickered 14 packs for me 574g for £1.49 each. It was a teeny bit embarassing but I was very pleased I asked if they were going down. I make two massive turkey tins full and need a very hot shower when I get home.

I do do some things all year round, Rudy, it's just that cycling isn't one of them!

Oh yes, MrsS, DH had white jeans (before my time thank God!) And I had the shaved sides, spikey on top and long at the back hairstyle, except at the back mine was curved so long at the sides and short in the middle. When I went home to dullsville, a child pointed at me and said "look mummy, a punk!"

I forgot my padded shorts as well today - the road surface between dcs' school and work is shocking and I felt every pothole. Ow. I was on a Brompton too, so the saddle is a bit basic.

Dh loves his clothes, which means he usually looks good, but there have been some interesting choices over the years. The ponyskin waistcoat comes to mind, as do the leather trousers. As he is a man with thighs, and not a Mick Jagger skinny rocker, the leather trews were a poor idea. And I'm sure I have mentioned before that he spent more money on his clothes for our wedding day than I did - and I had the whole nine yards, dress, going away outfit, hat, new shoes. He STILL spent more. (I will be telling this story to the old dear next to me in my nursing home). When we had an au pair and I suggested he should do less naked wandering about the house, he bought a jalaba. That's how his fashion mind works.

Well done to all dcs sitting exams at the moment - I'm hoping that your expertise in what all this means will somehow reach my brain by osmosis and I will somehow know what to expect. Thankfully I have a couple of years. Ds1 is in the first night of his school play tonight, we're going to see it tomorrow. Dh just got there to pick him up and caught the curtain call, which sounds like it was a 5 star triumph.

None of us have the slim gene, but we all have the muscular thighs gene

motherinferior can I just state, for the record, that I remember you as teeny - but like me, you were generally cocooned in an oversized mohair jumper or similar!

And oh, the clothing reminiscing is bringing back A LOT of memories for me.

Dh has the garden gnome gene. I am hoping that ds has not inherited this. In fairness, the hormone treatment he had before his brachytherapy treatment for prostate cancer did not exactly help. However, he says exercise is "boring".

Dd did all her first science modules in year 10, but is doing triple science so has done biology 2&3 and chemistry 2&3 this week and has physics 2&3 on Monday. She is currently saying that she doesn't want to do any of the subjects she has studied up until now at A level. She would rather do Weasel Studies and Advanced Macramé, apparently.

And yes, my outfit for my first wedding was pretty, er, special. Dear God, the photos (taken by my cousin) are truly hideous. Although my then h was very picturesque.
I fared only slightly better on the second attempt. I went to a local shop to look for an actual dress. The conversation went thusly:
Me: I'm looking for a dress to wear to a wedding.
Assistant: Oh, when for?
Me: Tomorrow
Assistant: Oh gosh. Whose wedding is it?
Me: Er, mine.
Assistant:

Dh wore the only suit he could get into. But he couldn't do it up.

(soon some style mavens will turn up with flaming torches and pitchforks and hound me out of S&B forever)

We'll be leaving together then stropps .

I used to do macramé. In the 70's

Is that knotting string?

Windy - dp has only even worn jeans once (studio family photo - all dressed up to the nines - he's in jeans and a defiant expression), since then never, nada, not a single pair.....

Wilbur I so want to meet your other half

Ds on the other hand favours bright colours - yellow in particular - random combinations and currently a giraffe onesie....

Windy ha ha - bet you made an owl BTM!

My mother was obsessed with making macrame owls - in fact I think she spent most of the '70s making macrame owls. Well that and necking valium and chainsmoking More menthol cigarettes, the -thin long brown ones.-- They were hideous. The owls that is.